I am so glad I went; Tchaikovsky would have his way with me if I were gay (what?) but that doesn't matter, it doesn't matter at all. The timpani, yes, it was the timpani that grasped my throat with its aural, booming, resoundingly menacing and demonic but triumphant and powerful stength; it kicked me with the very force of fate, the seared me with
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